Two Miners' Libraries in the '70s

Abstract

THE NOW DEFUNCT READING SOCIETIES of Leadhills and Wanlockhead made a valuable contribution to library history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but the libraries they amassed and the buildings they erected still exist, and their recent history, present state and possible future demonstrate important aspects of the problems of preserving old libraries.

Citation

Crawford, J. (1971), "Two Miners' Libraries in the '70s", Library Review, Vol. 23 No. 1/2, pp. 14-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012552